This lesson for KS1 children looks at developing good relationships and respecting the differences between people. It teaches learners that there are different types of teasing and bullying, that bullying is wrong, and how children can get get help to deal with bullying. The people depicted in the pdf scenarios are reflective of differences we see in contemporary Britain. It is important that all the cards are used to teach about different kinds of bullying e.g. racist and homophobic. For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the links provided.

Learners are encouraged to think about how people are all different and that difference is something to celebrate. Learners gain insight into what can happen when other people do not like a person’s difference through the main character in the book used, 'Something Else' by Kathryn Cave. It also teaches learners how to find commonalities in people by asking the right questions.For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the links provided.

In keeping with the style of Keith Haring’s work, this is a dynamic lesson which starts by asking the children to explore the movement and energy in Haring’s work physically. By creating his art with their bodies, learners might better understand a way of adding motion and emotion to their work. This lesson is also an ideal opportunity to openly celebrate the work of an artist who is gay and also disabled (HIV/AIDS) with the pupils. For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the links provided.

This lesson for children with SEN shows appropriate and inappropriate ways to touch people and includes a template social story about touching. For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the linksprovided.

This toolkit for schools provides examples of what can be done and how it can be done for LGBT History Month. It also highlights the elements of legislation supporting the introduction of LGBT elements in the curriculum.

Learners are asked to make different families from a set of cards and to reflect upon what makes a family and that all families are different.The lesson requires teachers to read the book ‘And Tango Makes Three’ to their class. The book is based upon the true story of two male penguins in New York’s Central Park Zoo who together adopted an egg and raised the chick as their own. For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the links provided.

This lesson covers different types of relationships, including those within families and between older and young people, boys and girls, and people of the same sex, including civil partnerships. It also provides scope in future lessons to cover the similarities, differences and diversity among people of different race, culture, ability, disability, gender, age and sexual orientation and the impact of prejudice, bullying, discrimination and racism on individuals and communities.For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the links provided.

This lesson includes open and frank discussion about sexual activities of people of all orientations.This lesson is designed to be very simple to deliver, and to require very minimal teacher knowledge for those teachers who find the idea of an SRE lesson that discusses LGBT sex to be intimidating.For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the links provided.

In this lesson for learners with SEN, they look at the many different types of flags around the world. Learners understand that flags do not just represent countries but also communities and organisations. Learners explore 3 individual flags (union jack, rainbow flag, and the Olympic flag) and present their findings according to ability back to the group.The notes provide language which would be appropriate for SLD SEN group.For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the links provided.

Students learn about the diversity of human sex and gender.They learn about gender variance, and how it has been treated in different ways by different cultures.For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the links provided.

By using the life of Alan Turing as a basis for research, students will develop ICT skills in PowerPoint or Publisher by creating digital posters. The main aim of the lesson if for learners to recognise the intended audience of their work and to adjust and adapt the use and presentation of ICT appropriately.For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the links provided.

This lesson from an SEN Sex and Relationships module asks learners to consider important loved ones in their life, and uses a multitude of relationships to model the concept of love. The attached PowerPoint is particularly useful for children with MLD and SLD as it portrays several different families and relationships in a bold and colourful format. Slides from this PowerPoint can be printed and used in the lesson.For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the links provided.

Students learn about the diversity of human sex and gender.They learn about gender variance, and how it has been treated in different ways by different cultures.For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the links provided.

In this lesson, learners will gain knowledge and insight into the life and work of the artist Keith Haring and begin to learn how to use paper to create a three dimensional form. Most learners should add correct proportions and learn how a paper sculpture is constructed whilst making a response to Haring’s work. Some learners could create an exciting interlocking sculpture demonstrating an imaginative interpretation of Haring’s work.For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the links provided.

Students reflect on Human Rights policy around the world. They consider if it is acceptable for people in different countries to behave in a way which would be considered homophobic in the UK, and how much influence our government should have on human rights in other countries.They consider the rights of gay and lesbian people in other countries.For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the links provided.

A lesson examining the many species in the animal kingdom in which the male is the primary caregiver. Pupils learn how the male seahorse gives birth to the young, (with link to a fascinating video); that the midwife toad male carries the eggs on his back’; that the Siamese fighting fish builds and tends to a nest made of bubbles and how the emperor penguins endures a harsh winter to care for a single egg. Learners are then asked to consider gender roles in the context of the human father. For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the links provided.

Learners in Early Years & Foundation Stage are encouraged to explore the world of colours by comparing colour photos to black é white photos, é (for more able students) begin to recognise blue as a colour often ascribed to boys é pink to girls. Though the lesson doesn’t use the language of gender stereotypes with the children, this very early work around challenging gender identity will lay the foundations in children for a more less constricted idea of the two genders as the opposite in later childhood. For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the links provided.

Based around the LGBT Youth North West 'This Is How We Got Here' project, Schools OUT UK, founders of LGBT History Month and The Classroom have created detailed and comprehensive lessons for several National Curriculum subjects: Science: The Gender Question (KS3/KS4) SRE: What can SRE do for us? (KS3/KS4) SRE: Relationships (KS3/KS4) SRE: B is for Boys and Binary, G is for Girls and Gender (KS3/KS4) PHSE: Visibility (KS3/KS4) PHSE: Careers – join the crew or rock the boat? (KS3/KS4) Citizenship: Campaigning and Protest – A British Value? (KS3/KS4) Geography: Demographics – why move to the city? (KS3/KS4) English: Polari (KS3/KS4) History: Section 28 (KS3/KS4) Each lesson has its own PowerPoint slideshow as well as all the relevant resources. That makes them too big for this site. So if you look in the document provided here, there are links to each of them on our own site The Classroom.

The lesson looks at love in more than one form e.g.love of a person, a hobby, work, animals etc. Learners are then asked to consider how people show love, and to who, or what and whether or not all forms of love are positive.It challenges prejudice by showing pictures of same-sex love, which needn’t be commented on but in its inclusion, usualises the concept.For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the links provided.

Learners will be discussing a range of opinions in relation to homosexuality and the rights of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual (LGB) people; in particular they will be thinking about homophobic bullying in schools and about ongoing debates concerning same-sex parenting and adoption. For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the links provided.

KS3 Maths Activity plan: A Tent for Brighton Pride. Learners will be asked to calculate areas of polygons using tents at Brighton Pride as a case study. Brighton Pride is an all day summer event in which lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from all over Europe come to celebrate. For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the links provided.